Hinge-joint for breastpin pin-tongues.



'PATENTED MAY 26, 1903.

E. W. MOREHOUSE. HINGE JOI NT FOR BRBASTPIN PIN TONGUES.

APPLICATION FILED OOT.4, 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENEW. MOREHOUSE, or PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO BARTON A. BAELQU AND FREDERICK A. BALLOU, COPARTNERS AS B. A. BALLOU & COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE," RHODE ISLAND.

HINGE-JOINT FOR BREASIITPIN PIN-TONGUES.

SPEGIFIGATION'fQrming part of Letters Batent No. 729,383, dated May 26, 1903. Application filed October 4,1902. vSerial No. 125,918. (No model.)

To all whom, it may-concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE W. MoEE- HOUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinge-Joints for Breastpin Pin-Tongues, of which the following is a specification refer-- ence being had therein to the accompanying IO drawings.

Like letters indicate like parts. v

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blank (cut from sheet stock) of the hinge-joint of my improved pin. Fig-2 is a top'plan view i5 of the same after it has been cupped and formed by a suitable die and plungers. "Fig, 3 is an edge view of the same. Fig.4 shows the formof said hinge-joint after it has been bent into a V shape. Fig. 5 shows in side elevation at back-plate of a breastpin having the bent-up hinge-joint soldered thereon. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the squareheaded pin used as a pin-tongue for said breastpin. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the said back-plate and hinge-joint soldered thereon, the pin-tongue mounted in the hinge-joint, together with the pin-catch to engage the free end of the pin-tongue. Fig. 8 is a sectional View, as seen on line acacof Fig. 7. Figs. 9, 10, 3o 11, 12, and 13are views of a modified form of my invention, of which Fig. 9 is an inverted plan view. Fig. 10 is a front elevation of said modified form of the hinge-joint after it is bent into a V shape. Fig. 11 is a View partly in elevation and partly in longitudinal section, as seen on the lower line of the pintongue 0, shown inFigp9. Fig. 12 is a plan view ofthe butt-end of the pin-tongue with a portion thereof cupped up to form the pivotal bearing of the pin-tongue, and Fig. 13 is a sectional view, as seenon line y'y of Fig. 11.

My invention relates to the combinationof hinge-joints and pin-tongues in breastpins and similar articles of personal wear; and it consists of the novel and useful construction and combination of the several parts hereinafter described, as specifically set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, A represents an oval blank out from sheet metal. This blank is subj ected to die action, by which it is formed as shown in Figs; 2 and 3, where it is seen there are two circular recesses or sockets a and b in the line of the major axis of the blank A,

near the ends thereof, and two annular depressions oand d, ninety degrees in extent, opening out from the sockets or recesses a and b, as fully shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The

- blank after it has been formed as shown in v Figs. 2 and 3 is centrally bent transversely into ageneral V shape, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

It is then soldered at its basee to the backplate B of the breastpin or similar article of personal wear and forms the hinge-joint.

The pin 0 is resilient, being made of tempered wire,'and has a squared head f, Fig. 6,

'andthe headed end is laid in the V-shaped opening of the bent-up hinge-joint, Fig. 1. This bent-uphinge-joint (with the pin-head in it) is pinched together by pliers, and the head f then lies in the two circular sockets a and b, as shown in Figs. '7 and 8. A catch D is soldered to the plate B and receives the outer endof the pin 0.

As seen in Fig. 8, the hinge-joint when bent -up has its-opposite'sides substantially paralpin-tongue O is freely movable from the positions shown in dotted lines in said figure to the position shown therein in solid lines, but, as is evident by an examination 'ofFig. 8, is prevented from axial rotation by its straight sides being in constant contact with the straight bot- 9o toms of the sockets a and b. The shoulders formed in the hinge-joint by those edges of the depressions c and d which extend at right angles from the plate B serve as a stop to limit the movement of the pin-tongue O in swinging outwardly, and the other shoulders formed by those edges of the said depressions which extend parallel with the plate B serve as a fulcrum on which to spring or bend the resilient pin-tongue 0 when bending the same to a position to enter and engage with the pincatch D.

In Figs. 9 to 13, inclusive, is shown a modified form of my invention in which the blank A is made with only one socket a, as seen in Figs. 10 and 13, and bent, as shown in Fig. 10, and soldered to the plate B, as shown in Figs. 9, 11, and 13. The pin 0' has an integral head f, whose edge f" is in line with the surface of the pin 0, and whose edge f is at a right angle thereto, and whose outer edge is curved, as shown in Fig. 11. By die action the side of the pin-head f .is cupped and a square-ended circular projection is thrown out on one side of the pin-head, as seen at m. This pin-head,with its projection m, is placed in the V-shaped opening of the hinge-joint A, Fig. 10, and said hinge-joint is pressed or pinched together by pliers to the form shown in Fig. 13 (which figure is a sectional view, as seen on line 3 y of Fig. 11.) As plainly shown in Fig. 13, the projection m of the pinhead f then fits in the socket a of the hingejoint A and permits the movement of the pin 0' in the plane of the axial line of the plate B. The square corner at the end of the edge f of the pin-head f furnishes a fulcrum for the springing of the resilient pin 0 to a position to enter and engage the catch D.

By this invention I dispense with a separate pivot to connect the pin-tongue with the hingeq'oint and save the labor of fitting such pivot to one member of the hinge and mounting it loosely in the other, which has hitherto been necessary in constructing such hinge connections. My said method of manufac ture is cheaper'than that usually adopted and is equally efiicient.

- I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of a pin-tongue having a substantially cubical head whose dimensions exceed the diameter of said pin-tongue, and a pliable hinge-joint having two sockets .and two quarter-circular annular depressions opening into said sockets, respectively, which hinge-joint is adapted, when bent, to receive rotatably said pin-head in said sockets and to receive the part of said pin-tongue nearest said pin-head in the slot formed by said two depressions when the hinge-joint has been bent so as to allow a limited oscillation of said pin-tongue therein, upon said pin-head as a pivot, substantially as shown.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a jewelers finding for the hinge-joint of a breastpin or similar article of personal wear, consisting of an oblong blank having on its major diameter two circular sockets near the end thereof and annular depressions, a quartercircle in extent, on the edge of said blank adjacent to and opening into said sockets, respectively, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE \V. MOREI-IOUSE.

Witnesses:

WARREN R. PERCE, HOWARD A. LAMPREY. 

